America's Foreign Policy is quite clear in the light of 15.8 Trillion dollars owed in many cases to "foreign" creditors and used at least in part to maintain foreign aid, foreign wars and entitlements in the interests often of non-American interests.

9:26 am July 3, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

foreign leaders consider him a party-thrower, not a serious leader. how could dufus have a foreign policy when he is irrelevant to anything other than hollywood and the main stream media? maybe they can produce a movie where obozo commands respect from foreign leaders - it can be a comedy.

9:43 am July 3, 2012

did you know wrote:

use of terms like “obozo” disqualifies seriousness of comment

9:46 am July 3, 2012

Foreign policy wrote:

In Gallup poll Pres. O ahead by 6.

Foreign policy

9:50 am July 3, 2012

secretary of mitt state wrote:

It’s because Romney does not have a clue about foreign policy other than trying to pick fights with chinese, russians, iranians, europeans and insulting africans.

10:03 am July 3, 2012

America can't afford Romney... wrote:

Romney has promised Netanyahu and Adelson that he would start a war with Iran. Another trillion dollar war to be added to the national debt...

10:06 am July 3, 2012

Obozo must go wrote:

Any alternative point of view disqualifies seriousness of comment.

10:10 am July 3, 2012

Curts wrote:

'Cause Mitt's got nothing.

10:13 am July 3, 2012

milan milenkovic wrote:

President should repeat more frequently what he accomplished successfully during last 3,5 years
( because some people definitely have “selective” memories). President took National Security issue very serious and successful:
1.(WH): “ President kept his pledge to the nation to end the war in Iraq in a responsible way”… Unfortunately, cost for war in Iraq : more than $ 1 trillion and around 4500 American’s life + more than 32,000 wounded... (PRICELESS)… 2. Navy Seal mission to kill Osama Bin Laden ...
Safety of our people and security of USA is always our No1 priority! USA as world LEADER, must be there where ACTION is... so I believe that USA wining combination is: NEW INOVATIONS and CYBERSECURITY !
President have a huge help in Sec. Clinton and Gen. Petraeus… ( they are doing outstanding job)…

10:14 am July 3, 2012

Richard Sullivan wrote:

Perhaps the electorate recognize that with either candidate our foreign policy will be conducted by political appointees.

10:15 am July 3, 2012

Offshore is forei wrote:

A person who worked for Mitt Romney at the consulting firm Bain and Co. in 1977 remembers him with mixed feelings. “Mitt was … a really wonderful boss,” the former employee says. “He was nice, he was fair, he was logical, he said what he wanted … he was really encouraging.” But Bain and Co., the person recalls, pushed employees to find out secret revenue and sales data on its clients’ competitors. Romney, the person says, suggested “falsifying” who they were to get such information, by pretending to be a graduate student working on a proj­ect at Harvard. (The person, in fact, was a Harvard student, at Bain for the summer, but not working on any such proj­ects.) “Mitt said to me something like ‘We won’t ask you to lie. I am not going to tell you to do this, but [it is] a really good way to get the information.’ … I would not have had anything in my analysis if I had not pretended.

“It was a strange atmosphere. It did leave a bad taste in your mouth,” the former employee recalls.

This unsettling account suggests the young Romney—at that point only two years out of Harvard Business School—was willing to push into gray areas when it came to business. More than three dec­ades later, as he tried to nail down the Republican nomination for president of the United States, Romney’s gray areas were again an issue when he repeatedly resisted calls to release more details of his net worth, his tax returns, and the large investments and assets held by him and his wife, Ann. Finally the other Republican candidates forced him to do so, but only highly selective disclosures were forthcoming.

Even so, these provided a lavish smorgasbord for Romney’s critics. Particularly jarring were the Romneys’ many offshore accounts. As Newt Gingrich put it during the primary season, “I don’t know of any American president who has had a Swiss bank account.” But Romney has, as well as other interests in such tax havens as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

10:19 am July 3, 2012

RG wrote:

Also important to note that the information that led intelligence to Osama's courier (instrumental in identifying Abottabad) came from Guantanamo Bay...very same place that Obama decried in the lead up to his election. Interesting how quickly a fact like this is swept under the rug.

10:42 am July 3, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

The situation described here is as if the perceptions reported are primarily generated from Republican Talking Points.

Of course, Republicans are part of the overall election dialogue, but it seems odd to claim that just because the R's no longer have their usual hardline advantage — in fact, Romney might seem quite unschooled on foreign affairs in general, and might need to run solely on economic issues — that all of a sudden the populace is disinterested in national security. Are independents so fickle, and Republican voters so partisan, or is this just a sign of being captured by one set of whisperers?

10:45 am July 3, 2012

orlfla wrote:

TO: "Offshore is forei" who posted at 10:15 am July 3, 2012
This is hilarious. A miff on a forum trying to drop a political bomb. What a laugh. We wouldn't believe you if your name was Barack Insane Obama. What makes you think we'd belive the tripe you're laying out here? But thanks for the story. We need a lgood augh now and then.

10:46 am July 3, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

We can't afford a foreign policy with the debt we have today.

10:47 am July 3, 2012

orlfla wrote:

The fact is neither one of these guys have a clue about foreign policy. Obama knows how to take vactions overseas and Mitt knows about their offshore bank accounts, but that's about it. This was the main reason Gingrich would have been a better contender. He knows politics and he knows foreign policy. Romney know neither.

10:47 am July 3, 2012

Anonymous 10:42 wrote:

Yes, republican voters are "so partisan". Thankfully, they are a dying breed.

10:48 am July 3, 2012

Prof Twist wrote:

In fact, there has been talk of foreign policy. But, given that it is a major weak point of Mitt's, his comments are designed to shift focus -- eg, anyone, even Carter, would've OK'd killing Bin Laden; Russia is our greatest enemy; Obama hasn't kissed enough Israeli *ss, so he doesn't understand the entire region; etc etc. These are high-stupidity statements from a man only looking to score political points at home, and reveal a shallow politician without much of a clue. Obama has accomplished a lot without enormous foreign policy spending, unlike his predecessor. Mitt doesn't have a leg to stand on, and he shows it.

10:50 am July 3, 2012

Quaxelrod wrote:

Since President Obama killed Bin Laden with Seal Team 6 and many Al Qaeda leaders with drone strikes, the advantage on foreign policy definitely goes to the President - typically a strong suit for the Republican candidate.

The White House is painfuly aware, however, that this election will be more about the economy and its recovery than national defense. President George Herbert Walker Bush enjoyed record high approval after his victory in Desert Storm, but his lack of a coherent strategy to deal with the awful economy allowed President Clinton to soundly trounce him.

I do not believe this will be the case in this election, because the presidency of George Walker Bush is still fresh in the minds of the electorate, and the American people still remember that the economy tanked under Bush's watch. I doubt they will want to return to the same policies that got us into this jam to begin with.

11:08 am July 3, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

9:43 the use of obozo as potus disqualifies democrats from being contemplated as a political party worthy of the United States of America.

12:27 pm July 3, 2012

ouch! wrote:

Romney is getting pummeled everywhere. Even here.

12:58 pm July 3, 2012

Gork wrote:

1108, they'll take - or manufacture - anything they can get. That's the desperation.

2:06 pm July 3, 2012

Fans of Muslim Brotherhood wrote:

We love Obama, keep Obama, his foreign policy smells so good, as he gives us many of your tax dollars, and lets us just take over countries in trouble.

2:07 pm July 3, 2012

To @ 1047 wrote:

You are very misinformed. Did you not know that Democrats have started, and led us into more wars than Republicans?
Do your homework.

2:12 pm July 3, 2012

To @1050 wrote:

Could you explain to us why the Obama knew where Bin Laden was the summer before the Seals took him out, and why it took so long for Obama to act on that information?
Foreign policy is not exactly his strong suit, neither is the economy. As far as all of you fans go who think he is such a great speaker, well, IMHO, he says uh, uh, uh way too much.
Uh, uh, uh, could you also explain why he looks like a scared little girl in that famous photo of the big moment ?

2:18 pm July 3, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

2:12 the reason he looked like a shrunken head was because his guilt was diminishing him on a minute by minute basis. bin laden - an ally, a brother, and a kindred spirit. must have been difficult to watch the seals kill one of his own.

3:13 pm July 3, 2012

GOP wrote:

Jack*ss Brigade, charge!

3:32 pm July 3, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Obama foreign policy is fine. Republicans and Romney are MIA and without clear alternatives.

5:56 pm July 3, 2012

Terry330 wrote:

I was the first to introduce the individual mandate, I am the Chief Outsourcer of job's and have had a hand in the financial devistation to those who lost their jobs, I wanted GM to close so my hedge fund buddies could take it for pennies,
I have absolutely no ideas of my own, I await my GOP marching orders and I must be respectful of teabaggers. My Name is MITT-WITT and I am a moron , I mean mormon.
Paid for by crossroads for americans that are easily hoodwinked and bamboozled by Hannity and Limbaugh

8:43 pm July 3, 2012

Blame Bush wrote:

Bush is the course of Americas decline not Obama and I think India and China will be better superpowers than America can ever hope to be .

9:06 pm July 3, 2012

rpc wrote:

amazing, perhaps alarming, that independents or anyone else give credit to Obama re: Afghanistan. His speech justifying the surge listed 3 pillars: Afghan security forces; improved (including less corruption) Afghan government; and Pakistani cooperation (inextricable was word he used). Afghan security forces are a question mark -- if they're ready why does Obama plan to keep thousands of troops there for years? The Afghan gov't is still corrupt and ineffective, so why pour money down that rathole? The failure with the Pakistanis (not Obama's fault) is obvious. Yet Obama proposes to spend $88 billion on Afghanistan next year while complaining about student loans and infrastructure projects -- cut Afghanistan spending in half and divide the 44B among student aid, infrastructure and keeping the deficit down (thrown in aid money to Pakistan once we get most of the equipment out). And, he proposes to keep thousands of troops there for another 10 years. Are any realistic benefits worth the cost? I don't believe so and have to wonder if others would if they were aware.

9:13 pm July 3, 2012

correction wrote:

the agreement to pull all US troops out of Iraq was signed by the Bush administration a month before Obama became President. Obama would have changed this and kept troops in Iraq but the Iraqi government wouldn't agree to our standard Status of Forces Agreement language so they didn't stay -- claiming Obama kept his pledge is hollow.

Obama made the right decision about how to take out bin Laden, but bin Laden was found by the CIA (not Obama) and taken out by the military. CIA had been looking for him for years and the process by which he was found was not driven by who was in the White House - regardless of party.

9:20 pm July 3, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Afghanistan will blow up as soon as our troops leave and that should be as soon as possible.

9:23 pm July 3, 2012

Special Forces wrote:

Obama as Commander in Chief takes responsibility for the CIA and the military. He deserves all the credit also.

11:03 am July 23, 2012

Sthephany wrote:

that wasn't an official ofifce but he certainly didn't have anything bad to say about the flag or Guevara did he? Kind of like saying hey I'm a good guy and I don't even mind if my supporters like murderous thugs. But I digress-Guess who else was a Cuban sympathizer? That's right class, Lee Harvey Oswald, a marksmen that never met a communist he didn't like.Now, let us put it all together--Che Guevara was Castro's chief persecutor-er I mean prosecutor, he was personally responsible for the killings of thousands of Cubans. If you need to check that for truth ride on down to Miami and start waving a Guevara flag.-JFK was killed by a Cuban sympathizer (Oswald) or maybe that should be plural depending on who you believe and how tight your tin foil is wrapped.-Teddy (speed racer) and Maria Schriver endorse Obama.-Obama could care less about a Cuban Guevara flag flown in his supporter’s ofifce.Does the irony escape Teddy and Maria? I’ll have what he’s drinking…The point here is that the Democrats are very quick to forget history and when someone reminds them they are even quicker to dismiss it. Here's another fact for you-One of the former members of the terrorist group Weather Underground, William Ayers, proclaimed in an interview with the New York Times published on 9/11/01 that he didn't regret setting bombs (A series of bombings that occurred in the 70s and included the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon).Guess who Mr. Ayers supports? That's right, Obama. In fact Mr. Ayers served on The Woods Fund (an anti poverty group) with Obama from 1999 to 2002. Swapping ideas I’d venture.And before any of you say I'm just a white guy railing on a black guy running for President, well I say there is no black guy running for President, Obama is white, at least his mother is but he hasn't said much about that either has he?Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain folks. It’s all about change anyway, the change in your pockets that is.

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